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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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4 Star Reviews

There’s Something Happening Here - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Run far, run fast, keep the wind in your hair - Memories of Ash by Intisar Khanani

“Bizarre, bespectacled, beautiful woman.” - One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean

The Underground Railroad, Literally - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Water Trade - People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry

If you loved the movie, you need to read this. - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story by Alexander Freed

Not injured, Sir? No swooning? No tears? Excellent - Dukes Prefer Blondes by Loretta Chase

Humans still struggling to learn empathy in 25th century - Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge

Sweetness Follows is the best novel yet from Ciarán West - Sweetness Follows by Ciarán West

Magic & Manners - Cecelia and Kate Series: Sorcery and Cecelia, The Grand Tour, The Mislaid Magician by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer

A Beach Read in January - Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

Quick! Read this book before the movie comes out later this year! - The Circle by Dave Eggers

Muslims! They’re just like us! - Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik

Thief of His Heart - To Steal a Heart by K.C. Bateman

Everfair – Using steampunk to reimagine history - Everfair by Nisi Shawl

“There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin.” - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown. - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

We All Think We’re Stronger Than Our Troubles - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

This book was so cool and so weird and I loved it - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

I wish there had been recipes - The Weight of it All by N.R. Walker

So you wish you were a professional (fill in the blank) - Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

Here’s that good YA I’ve been searching for - Underwater by Marisa Reichardt

“I have seen the future baby, it is murder” - The Shining Girls by Lauren Buekes

How did I not know of this series before now? - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

Mr. Serial Killer Comes to Washington - Sacred Sins by Nora Roberts

Thought-provoking and … kind of freaky - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Commander Uhura to the Rescue - Firestorm by LA Graf

Change my epitaph. - Out of Sorts by Aurelie Valognes

There’s a human being behind that brain, people - Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich

The problem with my life was that it was someone else’s idea. - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

False Smiles And Coded Letters - Our Man In Charleston by Christopher Dickey

His Public Thor and Bedroom Loki, So Henry Claims - The Weight of It All by N.R. Walker

Comfy with Puns and Magic Stuff - Robert Asprin's Myth-Fits by Jody Lynn Nye

What if the worst thing you did went viral? - Viral by Helen Fitzgerald

Good Medicine - The Tracker: The True Story of Tom Brown Jr. by Tom Brown

#frenemies - With Malice by Eileen Cook

Another Alice story… - Insanity (Mad in Wonderland) by Cameron Jace

The scientific principles of magic and investigation - Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

Not as great as the first one, but still a fun read - Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet

It could be habit forming - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

A Book That Rubs in What We’ve Lost - Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fischer

A solid romance classic - The Rainbow Season by Candace Camp

“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.” - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Apocalypse is a frame of mind. - Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5) by Jim Butcher

Where the Devil’s Always Watching - The Cold Eye by Laura Anne Gilman

The Princess Bride with Shapeshifters - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

Do you know anyone like the Columbine shooters? You might. - Columbine by Dave Cullen

Better than the first - Hard Hitter (Brooklyn Bruisers #2) by Sarina Bowen

Bellevue ain’t just for crazies any more - Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky

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